The Ciris gave Vergil his first lesson in serious poetic composition, and no task could have been set of more immediate value for the training of Rome's epic poet.
Footnote 3: Some recent critics have suggested that the poem may have been a general discussion of the fear of death, but Varius is constantly referred to as an epic poet (Horace, Sat.
But most of all there is revealed in the Ciris an epic poet's first timid probing into the depths of human emotions, a striving to understand the riddles behind the impulsive body.
He was a literary theorist, an epic poet in prose, traveller, polemist, orator.
An epic poet of Samos, who flourished at the end of the 5th century B.
An epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century B.
That does not mean that the epic poet's image of life's significance is of merely contemporary or transient importance.
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
When, therefore, we consider how close to his subject an epic poet is, we must be careful to be quite clear what his subject is.
He is not called on for that realistic reproduction of manners and usages which an epic poet is expected to exhibit on his larger canvas.
And he describes this disparaging estimate as the opinion 'which is now generally entertained on Virgil's claims as an epic poet(120).
An epic poet, over and above his purely poetic susceptibility, must possess the art and faculty of a prose historian.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "epic poet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
